Genre: Dramas Based on Classic Literature
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Bel Ami (2012)
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas …
Directed by: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
Armed with good looks and devastating charm, manipulative journalist Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) climbs from the depths of poverty to the height of Parisian society, taking up with a…
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Jane Eyre (2011)
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench …
Directed by: Cary Fukunaga
Driven from her post at Thornfield House by her love for her brooding employer and his secret past, young governess Jane Eyre reflects on her youth and the events that led her to the misty…
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Mildred Pierce (2011)
Cast: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood …
Directed by: Todd Haynes
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this HBO miniseries follows the turbulent life of Mildred Pierce, a fiercely independent single mom who works hard to win her daughter's love…
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Scents and Sensibility (2011)
Cast: Ashley Williams, Marla Sokoloff, Nick Zano …
Directed by: Brian Brough
Forced with her sister Marianne (Marla Sokoloff) to take menial work after their no-good father ruins the family name, Elinore Dashwood (Ashley Williams) supplements their income by…
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Coriolanus (2011)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox …
Directed by: Ralph Fiennes
Actor Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with this modern update of Shakespeare's tale about the arrogant general who is banished by the republic he has protected at all costs,…
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Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (2011)
Cast: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden …
Directed by: Paul Johansson
Ayn Rand's controversial bestseller is the basis for this potent drama about Dagny Taggart, a fiercely independent railroad tycoon determined to use innovative technology and…
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True Grit (2010)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon …
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
After drifter Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) murders her father, 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires alcoholic U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help her exact…
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The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba …
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
West Texas Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is harboring a dark secret. Though the small town's residents think he's a bit dense, Ford is, in fact, afflicted with a "sickness" that turns the…
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Flicka 2 (2010)
Cast: Patrick Warburton, Tammin Sursok, Emily Tennant …
Directed by: Michael Damian
Skateboarder Carrie McLaughlin (Tammin Sursok) feels as if she's living out a prison sentence when she's sent West to stay at her father's horse ranch, far from the big-city…
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The Tempest (2010)
Cast: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Reeve Carney …
Directed by: Julie Taymor
After years stranded on a deserted island, exiled duchess and sorceress Prospera (Helen Mirren) exacts vengeance on her enemies, whose passing vessel she has shipwrecked. What she…
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The Gift of the Magi (2010)
Cast: Marla Sokoloff, Rosemary Deleonardis, Mark Webber …
Directed by: Scott Mansfield, Lisa Mulcahy
This modernized adaptation of O. Henry's classic tale follows newlyweds Della and Jim as they search for the perfect Christmas gifts. Della wants to buy a vintage steering wheel for…
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Brighton Rock (2010)
Cast: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis …
Directed by: Rowan Joffe
In hopes of silencing a waitress (Andrea Riseborough) who saw him kill another criminal, a young thug (Sam Riley) decides to romance her and suss out how much she knows. But at what point…
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Lucky Life (2010)
Cast: Daniel O'Keefe, Megan McKenna, Kenyon Adams …
Directed by: Lee Isaac Chung
Years after gathering at the beach to say their good-byes to their terminally ill friend, Jason (Kenyon Adams), married couple Mark (Daniel O'Keefe) and Karen (Megan McKenna) prepare to…
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A Gangland Love Story (2010)
Cast: A.J. Lamas, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Gary Anthony Sturgis …
Directed by: Greg Carter
When they abscond with a shiny Cadillac convertible and hit the road from Los Angeles with plans to elope, young lovers Romano (A.J. Lamas) and Julia (Reagan Gomez-Preston) have no idea the…
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2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Cast: Barry Bostwick, Renée O'Connor, Matt Lagan …
Directed by: Trey Stokes
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville's classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring…
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Macbeth (2010)
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Suzanne Burden …
Directed by: Rupert Goold
Maintaining the gripping tone of director Rupert Goold's acclaimed stage adaptation, this modernized version of the Shakespearean tragedy stars Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood as the…
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Cast: Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Katheryn Winnick …
Directed by: John Alan Simon
Set in an alternate America, this chilling adaptation of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi classic centers on Nicholas Brady (Jonathan Scarfe), a Berkeley record store clerk who takes subversive…
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Agatha Christie Marple: The Pale Horse (2010)
Cast: Julia McKenzie, Nicholas Parsons, Lynda Baron …
Directed by: Andy Hay
Incomparable amateur sleuth Miss Marple becomes entangled in one of her toughest cases when friend Father Gorman is murdered. His list of doomed strangers leads Miss Marple to a sinister inn,…
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Dorian Gray (2009)
Cast: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin …
Directed by: Oliver Parker
When London artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin) paints a portrait of the young and beautiful Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes), the subject is so taken with his own image that he declares he'd do…
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Chéri (2009)
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
When French courtesan Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates) sets her pampered son, Chéri (Rupert Friend), up with middle-aged fellow courtesan Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), she wants to…
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Hamlet (2009)
Cast: David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Oliver Ford Davies …
Directed by: Gregory Doran
David Tennant stars as the melancholy Dane and Patrick Stewart portrays his uncle Claudius in this exhilarating version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's smash hit 2009 production of…
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Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Gina Holden, Greg Bryk …
Directed by: Sheldon Wilson
In this sci-fi thriller based on a Philip K. Dick story, a team of rescuers from Earth responds to an SOS from an abandoned planet only to find a motley crew of human survivors eking out an…
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Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2009)
Cast: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies …
Directed by: Dover Koshashvili
Chekhov's psychological insights and piercing humor illuminate the screen in this beautifully filmed drama about Laevsky, a narcissistic civil servant whose impetuous decision to leave…
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem …
Directed by: Eric Brevig
A hunch and the defunding of his lab prompt geology professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) -- whose outrageous theories have made him a laughingstock in academia -- to set off for Iceland…
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The Spirit (2008)
Cast: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson …
Directed by: Frank Miller
After a rookie cop is murdered, he's mysteriously reborn as a masked superhero known as the Spirit. Setting out to rid the streets of crime, he finds his archnemesis in the Octopus,…